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The Talk

By Matt Johnson, The Gary Law Group

Should all parts of the law—including building codes—be freely available? This question was addressed, in part, in a recent copyright lawsuit involving ASTM and PublicResource.org. The issue was whether the standards developed and published by ASTM, and later incorporated into laws, are entitled to copyright protection.

PublicResource.org is a nonprofit that places legal information online and does not charge for access. ASTM sued PublicResource.org because it had placed over 250 ASTM standards online in connection with federal laws that incorporated those standards.

ASTM argued that its materials were copyrighted and subject to its control, despite their adoption and incorporation into federal regulations. PublicResource.org responded, arguing that the incorporation of the standards into regulations deprived the standards of copyright protection because of the public’s need to access laws. The court recently agreed with ASTM. Read
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Should consensus standards that are incorporated into laws be publically available, for free?

Yes; once a standard becomes a law it needs to be public.

No; the effort required to publish these standards means they should be protected.

Depends; performance targets should be public, but test methods should not.

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